Clifton F Conrad
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4136990 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Clifton F Conrad |
| NOMBRES | Clifton F |
| APELLIDO | Conrad |
| FIRMA | CONRAD C F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Learning with Others
The professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China
Through analysis of policy documents and interviews with educational practitioners, this study investigates the policy of professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China. Key findings include participants’ overall endorsement of professionalisation and identification with its objective along with mixed feelings towards several aspects of the policy, discontinuity between participants’ attitude and action, and concerns about using a…
Black male success in STEM
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The Sage Handbook for Research in Education
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Shaping the College Curriculum
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Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Meditations on the Ideology of Inquiry in Higher Education
This paper, presented as the ASHE presidential address, looks critically at four conventional beliefs that guide research in higher education. These beliefs concern stakeholders, aims of inquiry, paradigm and modes of inquiry, and inquiry perspectives. The author contends that higher education should be viewed not as a narrow academic discipline but as a field of study in which the major stakeholders—scholarly peers, administrators and faculty, a…
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
Research Note
This study replicated and extended research by Conrad and Blackburn on program quality in regional universities. The sample doubled the number of departments, increased the number of institutions and programs, and added an additional state, for a total of three states in this study. The same general variables emerged as the strongest predictors, but strengths were lower. When “state” did not load in the regression analysis, the inference was that…
Dimensions of Program Quality in Regional Universities
Designing for Quality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsClifton F. ConradClifton F. Conrad is professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Anne M. Pratt is assistant to the vice-president for university advancement at the College of William and Mary.Anne M. PrattClifton F. Conrad is professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Anne M. Pratt is assistant to the vice-president for university advancement at the College of William an…
Correlates of Departmental Quality in Regional Colleges and Universities
This article isolates correlates of departmental quality at the masters and doctoral level in regional colleges and universities. The 45 departments in the sample represent 14 public institutions in two states and include departments in biology, chemistry, education, history, and mathematics. In addition to simple correlation, the analysis is based on multivariate linear regression. Departmental quality is found to be correlated with individual a…
Institutional Inbreeding Reexamined
Data from the 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate were used to examine the relationship between origin and productivity and institutional rewards. The analyses indicated that inbred and noninbred faculty were not significantly different on standard measures of scholarly productivity. However, when an adjustment was made for the confounding effects of time allocation, the groups could be differentiated, and inbred faculty were found to be mo…
Making Decisions about the Curriculum
Buffeted by external and internal pressures, postsecondary institutions have been forced to make critical decisions affecting long-term and short-term institutional planning in order to develop and maintain distinctive educational programs or, in some cases, simply to survive. As a fundamental component of higher education, undergraduate curricula have always received a fair amount of attention in theory and in practice. Until recently, however, …
Designing Undergraduate Education
This important new book offers a timely and comprehensive treatment of a subject that central to the continued vitality of American higher education
A Theory of Mandated Academic Change
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A Grounded Theory of Academic Change
University Goals
The purpose of this essay is to offer a new way of conceptualizing university goals. Several explanations are given as to why universities are not characterized by formal goals, and the concept of “operative goals” is advanced as a more useful concept. Operative goals are viewed as a function of the various “constraints” that affect the university, with special attention given to the environment-organization interface. Eight major constraints on …
A Grounded Theory of Academic Change
Shaping the College Curriculum
Preface. Need for a Curriculum Book. Audiences. Research Base. I. DEFINING CURRICULUM. 1. From Influences and Assumptions to Actions. Purpose. Perspective and Organization. 2. Defining Curriculum: An Academic Plan. Defining Curriculum. Common Definitions of Curriculum The Need for a Definitional Framework. The Academic Plan as a Useful Definition. Elements of Academic Plans Advantages of Defining Curriculum as an Academic Plan. Constructing Plans…
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Lives intertwined
Black male success in STEM
Correlates of Departmental Quality in Regional Colleges and Universities
This article isolates correlates of departmental quality at the masters and doctoral level in regional colleges and universities. The 45 departments in the sample represent 14 public institutions in two states and include departments in biology, chemistry, education, history, and mathematics. In addition to simple correlation, the analysis is based on multivariate linear regression. Departmental quality is found to be correlated with individual a…
Making Decisions about the Curriculum
Buffeted by external and internal pressures, postsecondary institutions have been forced to make critical decisions affecting long-term and short-term institutional planning in order to develop and maintain distinctive educational programs or, in some cases, simply to survive. As a fundamental component of higher education, undergraduate curricula have always received a fair amount of attention in theory and in practice. Until recently, however, …
A Theory of Mandated Academic Change
During the past decade, colleges and universities have been subject to a rapid expansion and intensification of external pressures for major policy changes. Among the most influential of the forces for academic reform are mandates emanating from the federal legislative and judicial branches of government. Not only have recent federal mandates affected policies and decision making, they often have struck at the very core of cultural, social, insti…
University Goals
The purpose of this essay is to offer a new way of conceptualizing university goals. Several explanations are given as to why universities are not characterized by formal goals, and the concept of “operative goals” is advanced as a more useful concept. Operative goals are viewed as a function of the various “constraints” that affect the university, with special attention given to the environment-organization interface. Eight major constraints on …
The professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China
Through analysis of policy documents and interviews with educational practitioners, this study investigates the policy of professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China. Key findings include participants’ overall endorsement of professionalisation and identification with its objective along with mixed feelings towards several aspects of the policy, discontinuity between participants’ attitude and action, and concerns about using a…
University Goals
The purpose of this essay is to offer a new way of conceptualizing university goals. Several explanations are given as to why universities are not characterized by formal goals, and the concept of “operative goals” is advanced as a more useful concept. Operative goals are viewed as a function of the various “constraints” that affect the university, with special attention given to the environment-organization interface. Eight major constraints on …
A Grounded Theory of Academic Change
Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education . Joseph J. Kockelmans
A Theory of Mandated Academic Change
During the past decade, colleges and universities have been subject to a rapid expansion and intensification of external pressures for major policy changes. Among the most influential of the forces for academic reform are mandates emanating from the federal legislative and judicial branches of government. Not only have recent federal mandates affected policies and decision making, they often have struck at the very core of cultural, social, insti…
Making Decisions about the Curriculum
Buffeted by external and internal pressures, postsecondary institutions have been forced to make critical decisions affecting long-term and short-term institutional planning in order to develop and maintain distinctive educational programs or, in some cases, simply to survive. As a fundamental component of higher education, undergraduate curricula have always received a fair amount of attention in theory and in practice. Until recently, however, …
Designing Undergraduate Education
This important new book offers a timely and comprehensive treatment of a subject that central to the continued vitality of American higher education
Institutional Inbreeding Reexamined
Data from the 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate were used to examine the relationship between origin and productivity and institutional rewards. The analyses indicated that inbred and noninbred faculty were not significantly different on standard measures of scholarly productivity. However, when an adjustment was made for the confounding effects of time allocation, the groups could be differentiated, and inbred faculty were found to be mo…
Designing for Quality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsClifton F. ConradClifton F. Conrad is professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Anne M. Pratt is assistant to the vice-president for university advancement at the College of William and Mary.Anne M. PrattClifton F. Conrad is professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, Anne M. Pratt is assistant to the vice-president for university advancement at the College of William an…
Correlates of Departmental Quality in Regional Colleges and Universities
This article isolates correlates of departmental quality at the masters and doctoral level in regional colleges and universities. The 45 departments in the sample represent 14 public institutions in two states and include departments in biology, chemistry, education, history, and mathematics. In addition to simple correlation, the analysis is based on multivariate linear regression. Departmental quality is found to be correlated with individual a…
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
Research Note
This study replicated and extended research by Conrad and Blackburn on program quality in regional universities. The sample doubled the number of departments, increased the number of institutions and programs, and added an additional state, for a total of three states in this study. The same general variables emerged as the strongest predictors, but strengths were lower. When “state” did not load in the regression analysis, the inference was that…
Dimensions of Program Quality in Regional Universities
Meditations on the Ideology of Inquiry in Higher Education
This paper, presented as the ASHE presidential address, looks critically at four conventional beliefs that guide research in higher education. These beliefs concern stakeholders, aims of inquiry, paradigm and modes of inquiry, and inquiry perspectives. The author contends that higher education should be viewed not as a narrow academic discipline but as a field of study in which the major stakeholders—scholarly peers, administrators and faculty, a…
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Shaping the College Curriculum
Preface. Need for a Curriculum Book. Audiences. Research Base. I. DEFINING CURRICULUM. 1. From Influences and Assumptions to Actions. Purpose. Perspective and Organization. 2. Defining Curriculum: An Academic Plan. Defining Curriculum. Common Definitions of Curriculum The Need for a Definitional Framework. The Academic Plan as a Useful Definition. Elements of Academic Plans Advantages of Defining Curriculum as an Academic Plan. Constructing Plans…
The Sage Handbook for Research in Education
Serlin stimulates and encourages students, faculty, and educational practitioners to place the pursuit of ideas at the epicenter of their research--from framing meaningful problems to identifying and addressing key challenges to the reporting and dissemination of their findings. As well as supporting readers to place the pursuit of ideas as the keystone of exemplary inquiry, the Handbook draws on the perspectives of scholars representing diverse …
Lives intertwined
Black male success in STEM
The professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China
Through analysis of policy documents and interviews with educational practitioners, this study investigates the policy of professionalisation of teaching and teacher education in China. Key findings include participants’ overall endorsement of professionalisation and identification with its objective along with mixed feelings towards several aspects of the policy, discontinuity between participants’ attitude and action, and concerns about using a…
Learning with Others
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